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Film International Shorts Programme 5

Short Films

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Wednesday 15th | 2.00pm | Kino Cinema

 


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Lübbo's Wife Is Waiting
Lübbos Frau Wartet

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Birthe Templin

Germany | 2002 | 8mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled

 

On a bus ride to see his wife, an old man encounters a rambunctious child. It is an encounter between two generations, yet one of the brief moments in life revealing the universality of love.


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Speculoos

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Yves Cantraine

Belgium | 2003 | 11mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled

 

What is happiness when you are sixty-five? Fantasy and the pleasure it provides? The world as a beautiful sight or the love and intimacy between two older bodies that are used to each other?


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Little Numba

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Daniele Lunghini, Diego Zuelli

Italy | 2002 | 4mins | Beta | Colour

 

In the renaissance, there was the rebirth of the intellect. The man discovered his conscience, his possibilities. In this short, a civilisation from its birth, decides to start a foolish run though some new conquest.


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Pictograph

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Miso Suchy

Slovakia / USA | 2003 | 22mins | Beta | Colour | Subtitled

 

High up in the Carpathian Mountains of the Ukraine, an age-old generation disappears, as a new, younger one takes its place.


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Instinct
Instinkt

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Rao Heidmets

Estonia | 2003 | 10mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled

 

What happens when the maker loses control over his creation and it starts to obey its own will?


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The Stairs
L'escalier

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Frédéric Mermoud

Switzerland | 2003 | 22mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled

 

Rachel, aged 15, has a crush on Hervé, a young high-school boy. The staircase of her block of flats is where they meet, kiss and find out about one another. One night Hervé makes a proposition, that both of them should run away to Normandy.


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Secret Love

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Paul Bush

England | 2002 | 4mins | 35mm | Colour

 

A father and daughter dance together but their playful banter turns to jealousy and indignation. Anger builds between the generations and sexes starting a cycle of violence seemingly without end.


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The Honourable Scaffolder

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Brendan Muldowney

Ireland | 2003 | 17mins | 35mm | Black & White

 

It was custom then, to make profit from crueltyŠ

 

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